Entertainment

The 2015 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix will showcase a world of off-track entertainment with an array of activities to suit fans of all ages. Our entertainment schedule is now live and features some old favourites and some fabulous new off-track diversions.

General Admission

Melbourne’s spectacular Albert Park street circuit is the perfect setting for the opening round of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship™ season. Get your first look at the new V6 Turbo power unit in action and see how they perform under the new regulations.

James Boag's Premium Zone Upgrade

Upgrade your existing General Admission or Grandstand ticket to access the James Boag's Premium Zone. This is the perfect place to upgrade your Grand Prix experience and enjoy a more comfortable and social environment.

GA + James Boag's Premium Zone Package

These packages include a General Admission ticket as well as access to the James Boag's Premium Zone. With a range of single day, or multi-day packaged options the James Boag's Premium Zone is the perfect place to kick back and enjoy the race.

4-day Grandstand

4-corner Grandstands

The 4 Corner Grandstand ticket option provides an opportunity to experience 4 different stand locations across the 4 days of the event. Watch the action from unique vantage points in a different grandstand each day.

That’s not meant unkindly as Marcus switches from the ill-fated Caterham team to Sauber; it’s just a salutary reminder that the Swiss team endured the worst season of its long F1 history in 2014 and has its work cut out to make significant improvement in 2015.

Ericsson only came into the F1 paddock last year, joining Caterham after long service in GP2 where fairly regular race wins over the years never quite added up to a title.

It seems hard to believe that Pastor Maldonado did actually win a Grand Prix in 2012 for Williams, and did so with some aplomb, fighting off the attentions of Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari in front of the Spaniard’s home crowd in Barcelona in 2012.

The Venezuelan must also have felt it was all a long way away in 2014, when he endured a season with just two points – and they came only in the third-last race of the season in Austin.

Two top-10 finishes, eight World Championship points, 14th place overall: the bare statistics of Romain Grosjean’s 2014 season, his third full year as a Formula 1 driver, make pretty sorry reading.

It will be small consolation to the Swiss/French driver that he was two places and six points better off than teammate Pastor Maldonado, for Lotus – fourth in both 2012 and 2013 – were never in the hunt and finished in a remote eighth place, with only Marussia and Caterham behind them.

It’s a weird and wonderful world. At just 20 years of age, Carlos Sainz Junior is already the senior member of a Grand Prix team.

With Daniil Kvyat moving up to replace the departed Vettel at Red Bull Racing, the Madrid-born Spaniard gets his chance in the ‘junior’ team which originally overlooked him in favour of the 17-year-old Max Verstappen.

Sainz, son of double rally World Champion Carlos, arrives as the youngest World Series by Renault 3.5 champion in history.

There’s nothing like saddling a 17-year-old with the burden of expectation.

As if being the son of a former F1 driver were not enough to live up to, Red Bull driver advisor Helmut Marko has said Verstappen stands comparison with Ayrton Senna.

Max will become the youngest driver in Grand Prix history when he lines up for Toro Rosso in Melbourne in March. At 17 years and 166 days he will be almost a full two years younger than the previous holder of that record, Jaime Alguersuari – and where is Jaime now?

This will be Nico’s fifth year in F1 – remember he missed out in 2011 – and it sees him still stuck in the middle tier of the grid after opting to continue with his current team.

The log-jam at the top of the Grand Prix field means that despite his talent the 2009 GP2 champion is still waiting for the chance to show what he can do in a front-running car.

Nonetheless, Hülkenberg insists that 2014 was the best of his four seasons in F1 so far. “It was the moment when I felt I really arrived and became comfortable with everything that surrounds the job,” he says.

“My motivation could not be stronger for the new season. I’ve done a lot of training during the winter break, to reach my peak physical fitness, and I’ve been working hard in preparation for this new era of McLaren-Honda. I’ve never felt better, or more ready for a new season.”

Fernando’s fired-up attitude can only spell bad news for every other driver in 2015.

It’s a year of many returns for McLaren. The question is, will they be happy ones?

Coming back first of all are Honda, with whom McLaren formed one of the most successful partnerships in F1 history.

Men of few words usually let their actions do their talking for them, but in 2014 the taciturn Finn was a man of few deeds as well.

Kimi couldn’t find his way to the podium last season: his best result was a fourth place in Belgium, his season blighted by the F14T’s handling characteristics that suited Alonso far better than they did him.

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